Alien: Earth Creator Officially Rules Out Predator Crossover, So Don't Expect a Yautja to Pop Up in Season 2

Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley has publically stated that the TV spinoff bid volition not diagnostic a crossover with Predator, ruling retired an quality from the Yautja successful Season 2 and beyond.

Dan Trachtenberg’s precocious released Predator: Badlands — officially the highest-grossing Predator movie of each time, including the AvP movies — is packed afloat of truthful galore Alien references that it fundamentally a Predator / Alien crossover movie successful each but name. Indeed, 1 of its stars, Elle Fanning, plays 2 Weyland-Yutani synths successful the movie.

But it seems Alien: Earth volition not articulation the crossover party. Hawley precocious confirmed helium is “not coordinating” a Predator quality successful the Alien spinoff TV amusement with Trachtenberg, who helium says helium has lone met once.

“No, not onto the show, I don’t think,” Hawley said of the anticipation of a Predator crossover connected the Smartless podcast. “I deliberation Dan Trachtenberg, who made Prey and has made the Badlands movie — you know, I loved Prey. I deliberation he’s doing a large occupation with that franchise. He intelligibly has a program there. I’ve met Dan once, we’re not benignant of coordinating immoderate of that stuff. So, it’s not truly my program to bash it.”

While Alien: Earth is intelligibly retired determination successful the vacuum of abstraction doing its ain thing, Trachtenberg sounds afloat velocity up connected realizing his imaginativeness of a Predator Cinematic Universe. Trachtenberg, who directed franchise reviver Prey and the animated movie Killer of Killers earlier the record-breaking Predator: Badlands, is intelligibly gathering towards something, with characters from erstwhile films successful the franchise popping up successful cameo signifier crossed his assorted Predator projects. Indeed, astatine the extremity of Killer of Killers we spot Arnold Schwarzenegger's iconic Predator quality Dutch successful stasis, conscionable begging to beryllium thawed for an all-star squad up astatine immoderate constituent successful the future.

While Trachtenberg is keeping his cards adjacent to his thorax successful presumption of his adjacent Predator movie, helium told Variety successful a caller interrogation that his volition is that each Predator movie is “a implicit thought,” and has learnt a invaluable acquisition from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“It tin each spell retired the doorway erstwhile we commencement putting pen to insubstantial connected stuff, but I’ve looked arsenic acold arsenic I could to consciousness comfy astir what I’m doing,” Trachtenberg said. “Every movie is simply a implicit thought, not that overmuch dissimilar the aboriginal Marvel worldly earlier the archetypal Avengers movie, wherever it’s like, those are large movies, and lo and behold, we’re really mounting up that things could travel unneurotic successful a delicious way. But they weren’t like, ‘See however everything’s interconnected similar brainsick each of a sudden!’ So I’m trying to larn that acquisition and marque definite that immoderate of these movies that we bash are awesome ideas for movies connected their own.”

Variety past pressed Trachtenberg connected the imaginable of tying each his threads unneurotic to signifier an Avengers-style payoff, since beryllium brought the movie up.

“It’s hard,” helium responded. “It’s amusive to geek retired and think, ‘Oh my god, wouldn’t it beryllium chill if…,’ adjacent connected a movie that you’d ne'er expect that to hap in. But it’s lone chill if the travel determination is arsenic worthy taking.”

As for Alien: Earth, Season 2 is confirmed arsenic portion of an wide caller woody that FX and Disney Entertainment Television person sealed with showrunner Noah Hawley. It begins filming successful London successful 2026. Be definite to cheque retired Alien: Earth Season 1 Ending Explained – How It Can All Fit Into the Bigger Alien Movie Universe diagnostic to find retired more.

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